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8 Fashion Trends OUT OF STYLE in 2019! *trash or donate*

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A YouTube stylist takes a red pen to eight closet staples and tells her audience it’s time to trash or donate them.

Shea Whitney, the creator behind a steady stream of closet-curation and shopping-guide videos, published “8 Fashion Trends OUT OF STYLE in 2019! *trash or donate*” with a disclaimer up front: “Don’t hate me…this is all in good fun haha!!” What follows is a rundown of eight pieces she says have run their course, sorted by what made them feel fresh once and why they don’t anymore.

• Whitney flags high-low hemlines as overplayed after dominating prior seasons, along with neon colors, which she calls too loud next to today’s more muted palettes.
• Cut-outs, once considered edgy, get singled out as the trend that lost its shock value through overuse.
• The video frames all eight picks — including crop tops, fringe, platform sneakers, chokers, and skinny scarves — as candidates for the donate pile rather than the back of the closet.

The Trash-or-Donate Format

Whitney’s video isn’t a takedown of anyone’s personal style — it’s built as a closet-audit checklist, the kind of content she’s known for across her channel’s shopping and styling guides. She walks through each item, explains why it caught on in the first place, and then makes the case for retiring it, landing on either “trash” or “donate” depending on the piece’s condition and reusability.

That format matters because it’s less about declaring trends dead in some abstract sense and more about giving viewers permission to clear space. A closet audit only works if the criteria are concrete, and Whitney keeps hers simple: does the piece still get worn, and does it still look current next to what’s actually selling in stores in 2019.

The Eight Items on the Chopping Block

High-low hemlines top the list — the asymmetric cut that runs longer in back than in front had its moment a few seasons earlier but, per Whitney, tipped into overplayed territory. Neon colors follow, described as too attention-grabbing compared to the neutral and muted tones she says have taken over. Cut-outs round out her top three specific call-outs, once edgy, now cliché.

From there the list moves through crop tops (too revealing for where her taste has landed), fringe (a hippie-era holdover that’s had its comebacks but is due for retirement again), platform sneakers (clunky rather than flattering), chokers (a fast trend that’s already faded), and skinny scarves (too small to be practical, in her view, next to bigger, more versatile options).

Don’t hate me…this is all in good fun haha!!

Part of a Bigger Decluttering Push

Whitney’s list lines up with a broader 2019 styling conversation pushing shoppers to stop chasing microtrends and instead build around pieces that last more than one season — the same instinct behind guides like 10 Summer Style Essentials All Men Need. The pitch is less “these trends are embarrassing” and more “these trends have an expiration date, so plan your closet around things that don’t.”

It’s the same logic that shows up a couple of years later in retrospectives like 70’s Fashion Trends We’re Still Wearing in 2021, which flips the question around: instead of asking what’s dead, it asks what actually survives the churn. Whitney’s video is the 2019 snapshot of that same cycle — a specific list, tied to a specific year, of what she thinks won’t make the cut.

Whitney frames every pick as a donate-first call rather than a straight trash, which fits the tone of the video from the opening disclaimer — she’s not shaming anyone’s old chokers, she’s just telling her audience where 2019 landed and letting them decide what goes in the bag.